Climatology

World leader in green tech, world beater in greenhouse gas

20 Jul 2012

We are constantly being told how China leads the world in green technologies.

Just last week mainland media were trumpeting that China poured US$18.3 billion into green energy in the...

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Wanted: an economy to blaze a trail in green growth

16 Jun 2012

More than 130 world leaders and 50,000 supporters and hangers-on are heading to Rio de Janeiro for what is billed as the biggest-ever international conference.

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Temperature rise can be attributed to global warming and urbanisation

25 Apr 2012

I refer to the article by Wyss Yim ('Hot? Blame the urban heat island', April 1).

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Go beyond symbols in earth's hour of need

10 Apr 2012

On March 31, millions across the globe once again pledged their support to cut carbon by shutting off their lights for Earth Hour. The hour was marked by candlelight vigils, fashion shows,...

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Beijing can't put all blame for climate change on West

2 Apr 2012

A number of readers have e-mailed criticising last Wednesday's column in which I argued that Beijing's opposition to a global deal to limit greenhouse-gas emissions is rational, if not altruistic...

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Third runway lobby ignoring serious environmental impact of growth

29 Mar 2012

Exco's approval of a third runway at Chek Lap Kok coincided with the release of a scientific paper showing increases in global atmospheric temperatures since 1998 to have been much higher than...

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Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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The huge fracture down the middle of the BRICS

Tomorrow the leaders of the so-called BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa - will meet in New Delhi for their fourth annual summit.

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Warming, or just hot air?

Chinese scientist Lu Longhua is well acquainted with the cold; he has even been to the North Pole three times.

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What carbon crackdown? New Kyoto deal hits wall of silence

The roller-coaster climate talks which had negotiators from nearly 200 nations working around the clock for two weeks captured media attention around the world - except on the...

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One step closer now to dangerous warming

The Durban climate summit has been proclaimed a great success. The chair, South Africa's Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told the delegates: 'We have concluded this meeting with [a plan] to save one...

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Three years to find Kyoto alternative

Deadlock at the UN climate talks in Durban would have put them in the same league as the Doha round of trade liberalisation talks for the failure of drawn-out multilateral efforts to advance...

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Who said it?

China's proclamations of its 'peaceful rise' appear more and more at odds with the emerging reality

Japanese opposition leader Nobuteru Ishihara

It's not good to have...

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